Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psychologist George R. Thornton of Purdue University photographed 20 men & women with glasses and without. Then he paired the pictures and tried them on 200 judges. The subjects made a better impression wearing glasses than bareface...
...Child Psychologist. In Westerly, R.I., imaginative Patrolman Joseph Delaney found a missing five-year-old boy by sounding the fire siren. It brought him running...
...What sorts of stimuli, Psychologist Ramsey wanted to know, have the most erotic effect on boys? Very young boys (under 14) responded most to talk about sex, older boys to seeing a naked girl. Next to these ranked daydreams, obscene pictures, movies, burlesque. Music, jazz or otherwise, was at the bottom of the list. Half of the group reported being aroused (notably between the ages of ten and twelve) by experiences that have no obvious connection with sex, such as seeing a big fire, hearing the national anthem, fast car driving or bicycle riding, reciting in class, watching marching soldiers...
From these findings Psychologist Ramsey drew no moral but, by comparison with studies of "an older generation," he was inclined to think that boys today get (or admit) much more sexual experience than their fathers...
...satisfaction of demand, according to Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, speaking this week at the fifth of a series of seven discussions entitled "Liberalism in A World At War." Perry explained to the audience that his views were parallel to those of the famous American psychologist and philosopher, and therefore, the statements he made during the meeting could be taken as the expressed beliefs of William James...